Ballpark
Polo Grounds IV
New York · 1901–1911 · config 1911
Plays even
(+0.0 runs for the away team)
Dimensions
LF 277′ · SLF 377′ · LFA 446′ · LC 446′ · CF 433′ · RC 404′ · RFA 404′ · SRF 348′ · RF 258′
Walls LF 10′ · LC 10′ · CF 8′ · RC 10′ · RF 10′
Pre-fire Polo Grounds — already a bathtub shape
Average foul ground
Capacity 16,000
Already a bathtub — short porches, long thoughts in center.
Overhead diagram
Photograph
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About this park
Polo Grounds IV bridged Manhattan baseball into the bathtub era that followed. Early century, near-neutral in the book, then rebuilt into the legendary V.